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Better Balance The unprecedented market volatility that the Great Recession brought during the past two years has put tremendous pressure on financial advisors' back-office technical and trading resources. |
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The Gluck Report, Part I: The Big Three's Tech Plans for 2006 New tech initiatives from the leading custodians have lots of features aimed at attracting and winning over RIAs without making them feel like they're losing their independence. We talk to the tech heads at Schwab, Fidelity, and TD Waterhouse. |
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Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms. |
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Financial Planning
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Wealth management: Advisors Finally Waking Up to the Internet's Useful Influence Bucking the market once again, Charles Schwab is doing the unthinkable: encouraging financial advisors to use the Internet to service affluent customers. |
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Outsource It! As a financial advisor, if you want to focus on wealth management, consider outsourcing everything else to a turnkey asset management provider. |
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Navigating The Retirement Business The demand for retirement income support will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years as the aging of the baby boom generation is inevitable. |
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December 2011
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Free-Range Advisors Custodians to independent advisors are in an arms race to give bigger, better software and practice management packages. |
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The Challenge Of Rebalancing Here are the pros and cons of using an automated system for this arduous task. |
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Looking To Streamline Now that they've experienced the harsh consequences of poor business management, fee-based advisors are looking to their custodians and broker-dealers for all the help they can get. |
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June 2011
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Getting It Together To give good advice, financial advisors need good information. Account aggregation is the key to good information |
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Advisor Emporium Pershing assists advisors going independent... New advisors receive technology assistance... FPA offers best practices tools... Direxion enters ETF market... Foliodynamix joins communications gateway... Scottrade adds portfolio director... |
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April 2006
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Your Best Partners More and more, financial advisors are using technology tools to offer additional services and become more efficient. |
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August 2004
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Independent Broker-Dealers Improving SMA Programs Historically, independent advisors have been forced to sit on the sidelines while wirehouses led the way in products and technology for separately managed accounts. Increasingly, things seem to be changing. |
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Envestnet's Fiduciary Opportunity Bill Crager, president of Envestnet, is not going to wait for Washington to figure out the fate of the fiduciary standard. The way he sees it, the market has already spoken. |
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Schwab Reveals Intelligent Portfolios For Advisors Schwab is making the technology the backbone of an account management tool for registered investment advisors. |
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Fiserv Has Software to Help the Independent Advisor New software from Fiserv enables an independent advisor to create a detailed case to persuade a wary client. |
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The Leaders Speak The most influential leaders in wealth management today expound on evolution, revolution, moving the debate past wirehouse versus independent, and more. |
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Streamlining Broker/dealers are aiming for a one-click model for their technology platforms. |
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Rep Readers Write: The Credibility Gap Will Cost You Many financial institutions vary greatly in investment advice depending on how a client engages with them, which can create service inconsistencies and reputation problems. Here are some examples. |
Investment Advisor
January 2007
Bob Clark |
The Trust Threat Financial advisors need to rethink adding trust services to their offerings. |
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Key Role Custodians are upping their technology offerings to RIAs. |
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Financial Advisor
October 2004
Sydney LeBlanc |
Your SMA Business Primer Start here to learn how to open separately managed accounts (SMAs) for your clients. |
Financial Advisor
November 2007
David J. Drucker |
In The Land Of Giants If a smaller custodian comes along that can successfully execute a platform of services advisors can't get from Schwab, Fidelity or TD Ameritrade, it's going to find a place with advisors. |
Financial Advisor
January 2009
Rebecca Pomering |
Turning Turbulence Into Growth Turmoil is creating big opportunities. |
